Battery terminal for upright posts



1,614,382 1927' Y E. E. NESS BATTERY TERMINAL FOR UPRIGHT POSTS Filed April 14. 1923 Iuusmmz ELLINE. E. N555- Patented Jan. 11, 1927.

UNITED STATES ELLING EDWARD NESS, OF WETASKIWIN, ALBERTA, CANADA.

BATTERY TERMINAL FOR UPRIGHT POSTS.

Application filed April 14, 1923.

This invention relates to improvements in battery terminals for-upright posts and the objects of the invention are to provide a device of this character that can be adapted 5 to any battery with upright posts and particularly to automobile batteries and whereby a sleeve can be dispensed with.

Further objects are to provide a simple and effective device of this kind which can '1 be readily taken apart and which is hampered by no complicated parts.

With these and other objects 1n new, the invention consists essentially in the novel construction and arrangement of parts as 15 described in the present specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

Referring to the drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure,

Figure 1 is a top plan view, showing an embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 1s a vertical section.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of my de-- 1 vice fitted to the battery terminal andthe upright post.

Figure I is a'similar View of the device detached. I

Figure 5 is a longitudinal'section through 30 the device.

In the drawings, A represents the device asa whole adapted to be fitted on the upright post B and comprising, as here illustrated, a clamping member formed with 5 a suitable base 11 and s ides 12 extending to form a curved looped portion 13 adapted to fit around the upright post B of a battery.

The sides 12 are provided with openings 14 registering with one another and designed to receive therethrough the wire 15 conduct- 4 ing the electric current while. the base is provided with a screw-threaded opening 16 adapted to receive therein a clamping screw 17 designed to contact with the upright post B.

In operation, the device,- as will be seen in Figure 3, is designed to be clamped into the cable 15 as well as to the post B by means of the single screw 17 This screw is provided with a cap 18 having an opening- 19 therein through which a. wire nail or otherwise can be inserted toturn the acrew.

Serial No. 632,118.

'used as alternatives through which the electric Wires may be run.

From the foregoing, it will be seenthat have invented simple, inexpensive and practical means inthe form of a battery terminal for upright posts. I r

'As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention within the scope of the claim, constructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanyingspecification and drawings shall vbe interpreted as illlustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

A battery terminal structure comprising, in combination, an upright terminal post, a nut threaded on the upper end of the post, a one piece frame presenting spaced side members extending transversely of the post at opposite sides thereof and having their extremities connected by integral transverse portions, said 'frame being retained on the post by means of said nut and the transverse portions of the frame and being provided with registering slots formed in said side members to provide a passage for inserting a conductor through the frame to lie between the post and one of said transverse portions, saidslots bein elongated in the longitudinal direction of the frame to permit the latter to move to a position clamping the conductor between the terminal post and the transverse portion of the frame lying at the opposite side of the conductor and means for adjusting said frame to con- ELLING EDWARD NESS. 

